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   ???????? ??? (jennifer_lee@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 13:34:56 JST ???????? ???

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   @GalacticTurtle Women should have a basic universal income so we are not at the mercy of misogynist fathers like mine, who only educate their sons, or misogynist partners who expect us to be maids and prostitutes while we raise their offspring. We could have it, if it were not for the handmaiden assholes who wouldn't support it due to their pick-me backstabbing. 😥
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     GalacticTurtle (galacticturtle@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 13:34:57 JST GalacticTurtle
     Midnight rant.
     
     For the "feminism hates mothers" crowd, I am wondering what exactly they would like feminism to do. I feel like most concrete feminist political activism has aimed to make marriage and motherhood less of a bear trap for women and... more of a... humane mouse trap.
     
     Or is the attitude I just exhibited there the issue? They want marriage and motherhood to be promoted to future generations of women, by feminists (because the world at large already does), rather than alternatives like developing a support structure of other women?
     
     Or would they like feminism to focus on women who are not given a choice and... get on a plane and go do some aggressive liberating? Or would they like feminists to make their husbands treat them better? Drop feminism altogether and say "oops we made a mistake" then turn back the clock 50 years?
     
     I just never know how to respond to that statement. I should go check out some KJK stuff cause I'm pretty sure that's one of the main issues she's looking to correct through her work. Letting women speak. Speak about how they feel dehumanized by wider society even after they follow every word of the script, get married, have kids, and they're still treated like dirt and trying to get that to change is like screaming at a brick wall?
     
     One day the accusation is that single and childless women have no money and will be miserable until they die. The next day the accusation is that single and childless women are members of the privileged elite that couldn't define "struggle" even if you gave them a dictionary.
     
     All of this just seems... so distracting. And I don't know what to make of it. But if I ever get on my soap box of female community and companionship, someone gets offended by a hypothetical living situation they'd never move into in the first place because I say "I don't invite men into my house."
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